Subject: Re: [vserver] bash prompt host name
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:28:08 +0100

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:22:59PM +0100, Miroslav ?ulc wrote:
> hi all,
> 
> i installed my first vserver this week. i have one machine with main
> host and four guests, all running gentoo. everything seems to work fine,
> but i have a minor issue with host name in prompt. when i connect using
> ssh to host or any of the guests, in bash prompt i can see always the
> same name. lets say i use names "host" and "guest1" up to "guest4". then
> my bash prompt would look like this for host and all guests:

> guest3 user1 #

> i guess it is caused by the fact that guest3 sets host name as the last
> one so it overrides previous settings as it seems this settings is only
> global or i'm setting the host name globally.

> my question is: is there any way to have different host names for host
> and each guest? this way it's pretty confusing when i log in guest1 and
> i can see guest3 prompt. i have kernel 2.6.31.5-vs2.3.0.36.21.

the answer is simple, you have an older util-vserver and
mainline behaviour changed so that your Linux-VServer
guests are no longer properly isolated.

update util-vserver to a recent snapshot (preferably the
latest), restart all the guests and you should be fine

HTH,
Herbert

> thx for any hints.
> 
> miroslav